Over the Plain Houses - by Julia Franks (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"A spellbinding story of witchcraft and disobedience." - NPR<br /><br />An NPR Best Book of 2016</b> <p><strong>An NPR Book of the Year </strong><strong>Winner of the 2017 Southern Book Prize<br /></strong></p> <p><strong>Indie Next Pick, May 2016 Gold IPPY Award, Literary Fiction</strong></p> <p>It's 1939, and the federal government has sent USDA agent Virginia Furman into the North Carolina mountains to instruct families on modernizing their homes and farms. There she meets farm wife Irenie Lambey, who is immediately drawn to the lady agent's self-possession. Already, cracks are emerging in Irenie's fragile marriage to Brodis, an ex-logger turned fundamentalist preacher: She has taken to night ramblings through the woods to escape her husband's bed, storing strange keepsakes in a mountain cavern. To Brodis, these are all the signs that Irenie--tiptoeing through the dark in her billowing white nightshirt--is practicing black magic.</p> <p>When Irenie slips back into bed with a kind of supernatural stealth, Brodis senses that a certain evil has entered his life, linked to the lady agent, or perhaps to other, more sinister forces.</p> <p>Working in the stylistic terrain of Amy Greene and Bonnie Jo Campbell, this award-winning debut by Julia Franks is the story of a woman intrigued by the possibility of change, escape, and reproductive choice--stalked by a Bible-haunted man who fears his government and stakes his integrity upon an older way of life. As Brodis chases his demons, he brings about a final act of violence that shakes the entire valley. In this spellbinding Southern story, Franks bares the myths and mysteries that modernity can't quite dispel.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A striking portrait of a place in transition, told by a gifted storyteller." <br>--Electric Lit</br><br><br>"Over the Plain Houses had me enthralled from beginning to end." <br>--Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried</br><br><br>"[Franks'] ear for the diction and rhythm and creativity of Southern mountain speech delights on every page." <b><br>--Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain</br></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Julia Franks has roots in the Appalachian Mountains and has spent years kayaking the rivers and creeks of Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia. She lives in Atlanta, where she teaches literature and runs loosecanon.com, a web service that fosters free-choice reading in the classroom.
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